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AFP - The train used to depict the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter movies has been spray-painted with graffiti by vandals, a British newspaper revealed on Thursday.
A gang broke into the depot housing the train in Scarborough, northern England, and proceeded to give it a space-age makeover, The Sun tabloid said.
The train, its real name the Olton Hall, has been hired out during production of the three Potter films.
"It is heartbreaking and has made me and the rest of the staff very angry," said James Shuttleworth of the West Coast Railway Company which operates the train.
"This will horrify the millions of Harry Potter fans," The Sun quoted him as saying.
The vandals sprayed a silver and green design, resembling futuristic homes, along two 64 foot carriages, signing their artwork 'Slobs'.
The gang was disturbed before it had a chance to spray the train's steam engine, which dates back to 1937, the daily said.
"It is going to be a very expensive job to get the carriages restored," a police spokesman told the paper.
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the third film treatment of J.K. Rowling's series of books about a boy wizard at boarding school, is due for release next year.
©AAP 2003
A gang broke into the depot housing the train in Scarborough, northern England, and proceeded to give it a space-age makeover, The Sun tabloid said.
The train, its real name the Olton Hall, has been hired out during production of the three Potter films.
"It is heartbreaking and has made me and the rest of the staff very angry," said James Shuttleworth of the West Coast Railway Company which operates the train.
"This will horrify the millions of Harry Potter fans," The Sun quoted him as saying.
The vandals sprayed a silver and green design, resembling futuristic homes, along two 64 foot carriages, signing their artwork 'Slobs'.
The gang was disturbed before it had a chance to spray the train's steam engine, which dates back to 1937, the daily said.
"It is going to be a very expensive job to get the carriages restored," a police spokesman told the paper.
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the third film treatment of J.K. Rowling's series of books about a boy wizard at boarding school, is due for release next year.
©AAP 2003
I ain't surprised that wud happen :roll: